Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: This is a shorter snippet to reproduce the issue: import os os.environ['TEST'] = u'äö'.encode('iso-8859-1') os.path.expandvars(u'%TEST%a')
If the var is a non-ASCII byte string, and the string passed to expandvars() is Unicode, the var is decoded implicitly using the ASCII codec and the decoding fails. On Python 3 the situation looks even worse: import os os.environ['TEST'] = 'äö'.encode('iso-8859-1'); os.path.expandvars('%TEST%a') This snippet returns "b'\\xe4\\xf6'a". ---------- priority: normal -> high versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6815> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com